This axe, discovered in 1859, was the first strong evidence that we have been here for much longer. It is thought to be around 400,000 years old and, since then, even older stone tools have been ...

Adding to the plethora of intelligent crafting was a collection of hand axes ... Most Stone Age axe workshops were previously known to create flint blades.

Egberts collected over 850 artifacts, ranging from very old hand axes from the Early or Old Paleolithic ... school children about prehistoric flint discoveries." The work in Iraq, a country ...

"The flint axe was the Swiss Army knife of its time ... it's beautifully balanced and a pleasure to hold in your hand. It's really hard to get your mind around the fact that the person who ...

This piece reminds me of how advanced we have become since the early days of mankind when flint provided a means to survive. I have often found flint tools/scrapers in the fields surrounding my ...